Heat Death of the Universe

The Biden admin "diplomatically" boycotts the Beijing Olympics and opens itself up to scrutiny into its own human rights atrocities. Biden admin brazenly pretends its hands are tied when it comes to waiving patents on vaccines. Camel beauty contests in Saudi Arabia crack down on botox injections. Look at your life as a 4000+ week calendar/poster to boost "productivity." An Ital...

The US twists the knife further into the Assange travesty. In Turkey, a drunk and "missing" man joins his own search party—you'll never believe what happens next! The concept of time is just, like, your opinion, man. [sings] All the single peasants (all the single peasants). The CIA's rife with pedophiles who totally evade all punishment by virtue of "protecting national s...

We watched the recently released, darkly comedic satire and directorial debut,  The Pizzagate Massacre . Then discussed the ins and outs of conspiracy theories, their subscribers and detractors, morally ambiguous characters, and how sometimes people just literally want a slice of pizza . Maybe two. Support: patreon.com/heatdeathpod General Recommendations JD's Recommendation: Jujutsu Kaisen J...

Update on whistleblower Daniel Hale and info on how to contact him in prison. Vietnamese factory workers lived in the factories for the greater good of the bottom line. Omicron, etc. FDR's forgotten crusade against "sexual perversion" in the Navy. Michael Flynn says the quiet part loud about the Evangelical theocratic endgame. Bill Gates bought all the news that's fit to print....

The farmer's protests in India are going well and Modi's seemingly on the ropes. Biden sells off the Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas interests less than a week after talking about leading the world in climate emergency mitigation at the COP26 summit.  Some scientists and marketing demons are researching ways to implant specific images and then full-blown advertisements into you dreams. Tex...

We finish our final third of Vincent Bevins ' The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World about some of the most pivotal yet hugely unsung hinge points in the Cold War, centered around the mass slaughter of communists (and those alleged to be) in Indonesia circa 1965-66. We discuss the spread of anticommunist massacres in Chile...

Get exploited in your dreams for free. More and more people just might be noticing some fundamental problems but are still a million light years from a general strike or even a Howard Beale "Mad as hell" moment. Climate summits are mainly just monstrous wastes of time and energy, all the way down to the subatomic level. Climate science has spoken on the voodoo of "net zero." Ky...

We continue our Book Club series on Vincent Bevins ' The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World about some of the most pivotal yet hugely unsung hinge points in the Cold War, centered around the mass slaughter of communists (and those alleged to be) in Indonesia circa 1965-66. We draw more parallels between the Brazilian coup...

Biden is the new FDR, 'cept he's still got his functioning gams, jack! Some piece of shit judge wants to smooch with and make tender love to Kyle Rittenhouse. New psychological study says we're thought more highly of than we'll ever know. Some proto-Banksy enacted the inverse of Project Mayhem by covertly changing traffic signs on an LA freeway. The great Dave Anthony gives us...

We begin our Book Club series on Vincent Bevins ' The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World about one of the most pivotal yet hugely unsung hinge points in the Cold War, centered around the mass slaughter of communists (and those alleged to be) in Indonesia circa 1965-66. Support: patreon.com/heatdeathpod General Recommendati...

This is another one the of seven commentaries recorded on Halloween 2021 for the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise commentary marathon we did. We're now designating movie commentaries as exclusively for patrons of our aptly named 'patreon'. But since we just started we thought we'd make at least one or two of them 'public' to see if anyone's interested. On Hall...

This is one of the of seven commentaries recorded on Halloween 2021 for the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise commentary marathon we did. We're now designating movie commentaries as exclusively for patrons of our aptly named 'patreon'. But since we just started we thought we'd make at least one or two of them 'public' to see if anyone's interested. On Halloween...

Updates on both Donziger and Assange. The strike wave continues. Or does it? Avoid billions in income taxes with these 3 E-Z Steps! Fauci is irredeemably awful for many reasons here are three standouts.  A man lived off of Six Flags concessions every day for seven years: listen to find out why! Support: patreon.com/heatdeathpod General Recommendations JD's Recommendation: Hellbound (TRAILER)...

New Zealand fired a wizard. Self-driving cars begin to eerily congregate in San Francisco. Big Tech & bellicose billionaires more generally decide to also help create the impending water wars in addition to all the rest the contribute to the world. Jair Bolsonaro is being indicted on 24 criminal counts, including crimes against humanity linked to his mass murderous handling of coronavirus. Som...

In another edition of our ongoing Book Club series, we discuss the bafflingly prescient and hugely unknown E.M. Forster proto-science fiction and dystopian story The Machine Stops . This was written in 1909 yet managed to very accurately predict technologies like the internet, including its ability to be used as a device that can allow people to never leave the house: video conferencing, deliverin...

We discuss the largely forgotten story of one of the largest riots in New York City history. In September 1992, some 10,000 off duty NYPs descended upon City Hall in a racially charged and drunken protest/riot, with their fury directed at Mayor David Dinkens, NYC's first and so far only Black mayor. We take a look at the details of the bizarre spectacle of off duty and on duty cops meeting at...

We discuss the investigative journalism of the recently published article "Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist. Almost Nothing Happened to the Adults in Charge" about a sinister judge (Judge Donna Scott Davenport) ruling in in Rutherford County, Tennessee with totally unchecked impunity and an wholly deranged and bombastic sense of moral superiority. For more than 2...

The distractions of the interlocking bullshit from both QAnon and BlueAnon as recently exemplified by Tucker Carlson and Third Reich wunderkind Steven Miller's latest flame-fanning nonsense about the White House's fake Oval Office. The bizarre subterranean markets and mind-boggling waste from our big-box online overlords. Why is it China's responsibility to process all the world&apo...

We address several excellent questions and comments from a listener (u/joshuaism) about Korean culture, partially through the lens of the currently extremely popular Korean streaming series Squid Game . The nature of Korean entertainment on the global stage. The country's complex relationship with gambling. Debt. Wealth inequality. Economic and social mobility. Loan sharks. Organized crime an...

Update of the Steven Donziger situation. CIA assassination plans. Russiagate further devours itself. Democrats negotiate themselves into oblivion. Covid Relief funds used to build prisons. Pandora Papers just dropped. Support: patreon.com/heatdeathpod General Recommendations JD'S Recommendation: Exit JNM's Recommendation: As the Gods Will Further Reading, Viewing, Listening Lawyer Steven...

Steven Donziger finally catches a break. Conceptual art scams again. An unorthodox beverage choice causes a forest fire. 2021 Doomsday Clock Statement. Ban backpacks, not guns. 500k Americans lack indoor plumbing. Ban border patrol horses and everything will fall perfectly into place. Guantanamo Bay will be expanded, further privatized, and no goddamn horses or their pills and pastes will be allow...

Gig workers get a little dignity. Bill Gates is a weird pervert, allegedly. China is doing exciting research into new energy sources. The parliamentarian wields more "power" over the entire legislative and executive branches. Haitian refugees welcomed by Mexico as the US chases them with horses and illegally sends them back into immense danger. Congress absurdly and unanimously passes a...

"‎Who would die for this chance to be fed this death of pleasure with spoons, in their warm homes, alone, unmoving?" We celebrate Jason's birthday by discussing the extent to which nostalgia can negatively impact people and societies (happy birthday!) and then move on to read from the classic essay written by the trio of Daniel Bessner, Matt Christman and Amber A’lee Frost entitled...

Today we read from the essay "Everyone is Beautiful and No One is Horny" by Raquel S. Benedict, which examines the evolution of fitness culture in the realm of Hollywood films, contrasting the current moment primarily with the cinematic expressions of the 1980s and 90s. Interesting parallels are drawn between social atomization, residential architecture, a society gripped by fear and the...

We take notice of hitting the 100th episode mark and bring things full circle back to episode 001 by having a spirited round of Clickbait Roulette (patent pending). We loosen our mouths and brains with some beverages and cover some of the more irregular news of the day: Political violence related to a side-by-side Biden flag and Trump effigy. An idiotic and "jasmine-scented" mural in Lon...